Wise Moral Sayings

#1. Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#2. Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.

Rob Bell

#3. Catallactics does not ask whether or not the consumers are right, noble, generous, wise, moral, patriotic, or church-going. It is concerned not with why they act, but only with how they act.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. If you remove the cross from Christianity, all that remains is some wise moral teaching not terribly different from any other religion.

Gary L. Thomas

#5. I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

Lana Del Rey

#6. It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.

Michelangelo

#7. Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was 'easy' over that which was 'right'. And while it's 'right' to admit this to myself, it isn't 'easy.' So, which choice am I going to make this time?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

J.K. Rowling

#9. Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.

Tim Wise

#10. With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is one form of vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations

Bertrand Russell

#11. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

#12. In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

#13. The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

Archimedes

#14. People aren't happy because they're successful. They're successful because they're happy.

Jeff Sutherland

#15. In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#16. We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#17. It was about how you have to be strong to break free from abuse and not constantly measure yourself against toxic people but stand strong and distinct like a healthy tree. Not some stunted, falling-over, co-dependent victim tree. Or whatever.

Sophie Kinsella

#18. Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person.

Peter Scazzero

#19. We'd hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.

Michael Cunningham

#20. Skepticism ... is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

Thomas Carlyle

#21. The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.

James Madison

#22. These tales of a world, once beautiful, and now fairly forgotten.

Hugh Howey

#23. To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Democritus

#24. 'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me.

Mike Nichols

#25. The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.

Dorothea Dix

#26. 2 When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily. But wise and knowledgeable leaders bring stability.

Anonymous

#27. I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing; as a wise Creator must have seen to be necessary in an animal destined to live in society.

Thomas Jefferson

#28. Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

Junipero Serra

#29. While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#30. Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.

Bernie Siegel

#31. If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.

John Lancaster Spalding

#32. It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.

Arnold Friberg

#33. Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#34. Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

Walter Darby Bannard

#35. [I]n speaking about someone's character, we do not say that he is wise or comprehending, but that he is gentle or moderate.

Aristotle.